紐約 – 五月 24, 2016 – The weekend of June 11th, boxing’s most influential women will gather for brunch in the Big Apple for the 7th Raging Babe event of its kind, dubbed New York, 紐約. Attendees will include promoters, network executives, public relations representatives, 裁判員, fighters and others, and come from diverse backgrounds, cultures and levels of experience. Women who have attended Raging Babe events have networked, forged business and personal relationships and have been inspired by the stories of success and persistence shared by the hundreds of attendees over the past few years. There may be no woman that better personifies a story of success and persistence than 凱西Duva, who will be honored with the Raging Babe Luminary Award at the brunch.
Duva, the CEO of Main Events, and a mother of three, has been involved with boxing for nearly forty years, entering the business while in college with her then boyfriend Dan Duva. The Duvas teamed up to promote some of boxing’s top talent over the years under the Main Events banner, including Evander Holyfield, 倫諾克斯·劉易斯, Pernell Whitacker, Arturo Gatti and Fernando Vargas, all while cultivating powerful relationships with HBO and other networks. Kathy continued her husband’s legacy after his passing in 1996, becoming one of the most recognized figures in boxing. 最近, Duva and Main Events have developed one of boxing’s most avoided superstars in Sergey Kovalev.
“Kathy Duva is the perfect honoree for our first New York City Brunch,” said Raging Babe founder and namesake Michelle Rosado. “拳擊, like the ‘Concrete Jungle,’ has so many hard edges, and can be tough to navigate…but like New York City, it is full of opportunity for the right type of person, and Kathy Duva is that kind of person. She’s a headstrong, smart and persistent woman, who has an uncanny ability to endear people to her while not taking any gruff from anyone. It’s our honor to recognize her at the brunch.”
Past Raging Babe event honorees have included the “First Lady of Boxing” 成龍凱倫, 公共關係王牌 凱利·斯旺森, 電視開拓者 Claudia Trejo, heart transplant recipient 肯尼迪坎寧安, 名人堂首席運營官內華達州拳擊名人堂 米歇爾科拉萊斯 - 劉易斯, and Golden Boy’s 莫妮卡西爾斯. “It’s a privilege to stand in a room with women of this caliber,” 說羅薩. “The Raging Babe Brunch started as a concept…something we might try to do yearly, but it’s become such a powerful and valuable event for attendees, we’re growing and doing more than one event per year. We’re able to do this because of the women of boxing that continue to support the event, and of course, thanks to our event partners.
The East Coast is well overdue for a Raging Babe Brunch, and I’m so pleased to be able to work with our partners to bring the event to New York City.”
The Raging Babe Brunch is made possible by the generous support of World Boxing Organization (WBO), War Tape, Box Stats, Boss Case (owned and operated by Raging Babe Livvy Cunningham), 世界拳擊理事會 (WBC) and Youth Fighting Forward.
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